'Larry's Party'

'I Love novels because novels are not just about what people do, but about what people think.'
- Carol Shields

Larry's Party is a novel which I have really enjoyed. Shields is writing from the point of view of a man, partly in response to being called a feminist, partly as a means to do the unexpected: tell the tale of an ordinary man. The structure of the novel, which shifts through period's in Larry's life, mimics the Larry's masculine, convoluted thought processes. The reader is constantly a step behind Larry's actions (which are told after the fact) until the final chapter when we are finally able to join the action, this maintains a sense of emotional distance from the protagonist.
Read it!

carnage

Charlotte and I at Carnage

Carnage - not necessarily a concept I believe in... I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep up with the drinking, but it was fine! haha

american holiday photos

this is me in universal studios

us all having dinner at 'millhouse steak'

Tim and I in the blue ridge state park

american holiday

welcome to my world Daisy duck!

American holiday :-) --another thing ticked off my list from my first blog!
what a lucky girl I am to be taken to one of my favourite places! Despite some irritations (!) Tim and I did have a lovely time, and the weather was mostly lovely :)
It was really nice to catch up with Matt & to meet Vanna.
My favourite places were Charleston and going to the beach in Florida :)
we ate out all the time (no good for the waist line!) and when Easter came I enjoyed some much missed wine!!
there was another picture on here, but I seem to have deleted it, and now can't get it back...fool, it showed the 5 of us enjoying dinner.